zero and oh!

[Alias]

me too...

[Contreras]

[expat]

I always do a stroke through the 7, and through the z, but that's because I have lived in mainland Europe much more than in the UK: the "continental" 1 has a pronounced leading upstroke (to distinguish it from the "i") so a British 7 can easily be confused with it; and the European 2 does not have a loop or twist at the bottom left so could be confused with a z. Actually I learned that z in undergraduate maths even before Europe.

But the slash through the zero is pure and simple: coding sheets.

That's from when WFH meant taking a few coding pads home with you.

[Lockhouse]

Just found myself writing a zero as ∅, again. Does anyone else still do that, or am I a dinosaur?

I learned to code on coding sheets which used to get sent away to be punched. As I was a junior programmer mine were only single punched so I had to make the corrections myself on the old Rand-Sperry punch card machine or a hand punch when that went wrong. The senior programmers used to have the luxury of having their programs double punched which cost extra.

I cross my zeros and top and tail my i's to this day.

[Scruff]

+1 both zeros and sevens get that treatment from me.

Ditt0 ™

[OwlHoot]

Just found myself writing a zero as ∅, again. Does anyone else still do that, or am I a dinosaur?

Yep I always do that, although people sometimes ask "is that an 8 ?", which makes me want to pull their ears off!

I don't cross my sevens though, as that is more of a continental thing. Had loads of Frenchmen ringing my phone number a few years ago because it contained a "1" which the daft twats had obviously written with a large hook at the top just like a "7".

[zeitghost]

I cross 7s & I cross Zs.

I don't cross 0s though.

It was never a problem since I used mini & micros, so never had the luxury of someone else typing in my code.

The Zs can get confusing in them hard sums wot I used to do with impedances and such like.

Differentiating between Z and 2 could be quite important.

[Halo Jones]

I cross 0's & 7's, never done coding so no idea where I got the habit; not seen the crossed z's thou

[NotAllThere]

I'm a 7 and Z man myself. I picked up the habit from maths, not because I'm resident in continental Europe. I only use a Ø in a computing or set theoretic context.

I used to do x as but I seem to have lost that habit.

[mudskipper]

My Gs look like 6s.

Dunno whether I cross or not - think I'm random, sometimes do, sometimes don't.